In my pie making adventures, I've tried quite a few recipes whose results were questionable (Shoofly Pie with blackstrap molasses; do not do this!) or which mysteriously morphed into something else. Such it was that I started with the notion of making chess pie and ended up with this Almond Custard Pie.
I'm not entirely sure how one thing led to another anymore, but this is a delicious almondy confection. I'm not entirely sure it counts as a pie, as the almond crust has the interesting habit of rising to the top of the pie instead of remaining on the bottom as crust.
Ingredients
For Crust
- 1 cup Almonds preferably sliced
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1/4 tsp Almond Extract
Servings: people
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Chop your almonds up in a food processor. Once they are finely chopped, add the butter and almond extract and continue processing until well mixed. If the butter starts out soft, then the almonds should start clumping together in a loose dough.
- Press your almond dough into the bottom of a pie plate, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- While your crust is cooking, cream together your butter and sugar until smooth.
- Add in the eggs, flour, whey, almond extract, and nutmeg. Mix well.
- Pour the filling into your pie plate, and bake for an additional 60 minutes.
Recipe Notes
On the whey - the first time I made this recipe, I had really thick whey from one of my cheese-making experiments.. It was a bit like soft yogurt. You can also use buttermilk, OR 1 cup of whey/milk with 1/2 cup of yogurt.
On the pie crust - 1 cup of almonds only makes enough to cover the bottom of the pie plate. I like limited crust, but if you want it to go up the sides as well, double the crust recipe.
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A delicious custard for autumn dinners. Please note that after the pumpkin and sweet potato, the most important ingredient is the rum. The entire thing will fall flat without it. Don't forget the rum!
Also, while some may consider this desert, that's silly. Pumpkin is healthy, right? You can absolutely eat this with your main meal. 🙂
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
- Peel and chop up your sweet potato. Put it in a saucepan with a bit of water and cook until tender. If you processed your own pumpkin and were keeping it frozen like I do, you probably want to defrost it now. Better yet, throw the frozen chunks in with the sweet potatos and kill two birds with one stone.
- Once your sweet potato is soft, mash it up and combine it with the pumpkin puree.
- Add sugar, cinnamon, salt, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Stir well.
- Beat your egg(s) and add to the mixture, along with your milk. If your sweet potato / pumpkin mix is still warm enough, you can chop up the 1/4 cup of butter and melt it in with everything. If not, then melt the butter in the microwave, then add it to the mixture.
- Add the rum! Mix everything together well.
- Pour your mixture into 1-2 casserole dishes. I use varying amounts of sweet potato and pumpkin, so it often exceeds one 8x8 dish.
- Bake for 1-1.5 hours. Enjoy hot or cold!
Recipe Notes
Inspired by Taste of Home's Pumpkin-Sweet Potato Pie
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